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The best or perfect example of something is its apotheosis, a word which can also be used to describe the best or highest point in someone’s life or job.

An apparition is something that unexpectedly appears that is either a ghost or ghostly.

Corporeal means relating to the physical or material world rather than the spiritual; corporeal also means characteristic of the body, rather than the mind or feelings.

If you describe someone as corpulent, you mean that he or she is extremely fat.

If someone is deified, they are either made into a god or adored like one.

A person or animal that is emaciated is extremely thin because of a serious illness or lack of food.

Something ethereal has a delicate beauty that makes it seem not part of the real world.

If someone looks gaunt he looks very thin, usually because he is ill, tired, or worried.

Numinous objects or places seem holy, spiritual, and possess a mysterious power, which make you feel that a spirit or god may be present.

If someone is rotund, he has a round and fat body.

A semblance is an outward appearance of what is wanted or expected, but is not exactly as hoped for.

A sentient being is able to experience the world through its senses and possibly has emotional feelings.

A simulacrum is an image or representation of something that can be a true copy or may just have a vague similarity to it.

If you say that something is somatic, you mean that it relates to or affects the body and not the mind.

Something that is tangible is able to be touched and thus is considered real.

Something that is transcendent not only surpasses all others in quality, achievement, or significance, but exceeds normal limits or boundaries.

Something that is vaporous is not completely formed, but foggy and misty; in the same vein, a vaporous idea is insubstantial and vague.

A visceral feeling or attitude is strong and difficult to control or ignore; it arises through instinct or “the gut” rather than through careful thought.

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Adj.

anthropomorphic

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Context

The Greeks used anthropomorphic or humanlike gods to explain natural phenomena. The anthropomorphic Poseidon was imagined to be a huge man who could use his trident to stir up the sea or crash into the ground to cause earthquakes. His brother Zeus, the king of the gods, possessed an anthropomorphic, human-shaped body that was strong and muscular, easily capable of hurling thunderbolts across the sky. Often cultures will make their gods anthropomorphic or possessing human characteristics to make them more accessible to their human worshipers.

Memory Hook

Examples

Kool-Aid leaders, however, have steadfastly refused to do so, threatening to summon their dreaded anthropomorphic pitcher if pressure does not relent.
—The Onion

People need to stop this nonsense about anthropomorphic anything and realize there is some science/reason/mechanisms behind the changes that we're seeing — to think that the Earth or anything about it will be at a steady state is crazy.
—Wired

These beliefs follow of necessity from their basic understanding of the nature of God, who is corporeal, created, finite, limited, anthropomorphic in the real sense.
—The Atlantic

The people who take the animal-rights position and claim that animals are just like us are actually taking a very anthropomorphic and anti-evolutionary view.
—The Atlantic

Word Ingredients

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